Culture and power : Tuscany and its universities, 1537-1609 by Jonathan Davies(
)15
editions published
in
2009
in
English and German
and held by
1,463 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Challenging absolutist interpretations, this title presents a study that uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to reveal
the contradictions and the tensions as well as the innovations and the traditions which characterised the grand duchy of Tuscany
and its cultural politics

Aspects of violence in Renaissance Europe by Jonathan Davies(
)16
editions published
between
2013
and
2016
in
English
and held by
422 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"This volume contains case studies which will contribute to the greater understanding of violence in Europe between the fifteenth
and seventeenth centuries. Informed by disciplines including anthropology, criminology, the history of art, literary studies
and sociology, as well as by history, these chapters focus on specific places at particular times. They examine murder, manslaughter,
assault, rape, riots, war and justice."--Introduction, p. 6

Florence and its university during the early Renaissance by Jonathan Davies(
Book
)1
edition published
in
1998
in
English
and held by
180 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This book makes a substantial contribution to the study of Florentine history. It answers an important but hitherto unresolved
question: why did the Florentine Republic keep a university in its capital city between 1385 and 1473 rather than follow the
example of other Italian states in maintaining a university in a subject town?

Scholarly self-fashioning and community in the early modern university by Jonathan Davies(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2013
in
English
and held by
2 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence
of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time university scholars
demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance
and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing
deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity."